Reflective Journal - Importance of Nursing Skills and the Effective Leadership Management

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Introduction
Health care system is clearly dependent on the nursing professionals as the primary care
is provided by the nurses. Hence, therapeutic relationship with the patients is one of the most
important aspects of the nursing care providence. In this aspect it can be found that the nursing
professionals should manage the care with proper planning and provide the patients proper care
with patient centered approach of care. It has been seen that the leadership and the care
procedures are integrated aspects and also dependent on the knowledge and skills of the nurses.
In terms of these aspects it can be found that the process of care should be incorporated with the
evidence based practice as it helps in providing improved care to the patients. In the following
section I will be reflecting on the earlier mentioned aspects with the consideration of the
importance of nursing skills and the effective leadership management.
Reflection
Nursing care is a dynamic aspect and comprised of different skills and knowledge which
should be considered for achieving the improved health outcome of the patients. In this context I
can state that different types of leadership approaches can be implemented for the improvement
of care procedures in the medical surgical units. However, the process of care can be improved
with the implementation of transformational leadership as it allows the nurses to improve or
enhance the care procedure in terms of management and influencing other to the positive
direction (Vaismoradi et al., 2016). Moreover, I find that the diversity in the care team would
effective in terms of quality care providence. However, it can be stated that process of care
would be effective if the inter-professional skills of the nurses can be improved. In this context I
find that the inter-professional skills and leadership skills are very much important in the aspect

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of the improved care delivery (Opsha & Kane, 2017). Based on this assessment I can reflect that
the nursing communication skill is one of the most important aspects that can improve the other
skills as well. The improvement of the communication and the management skills would lead to
an improved care procedure development. The skills including communication, leadership, time
management and effective management are important for providing better care to the patients
and in achieving the customer satisfaction. The factor of the transformational leadership is
dependent on the inter-professional collaboration skills which includes the active listening,
positive communication, the critical thinking and influential capabilities as well (Boamah et al.,
2018). I can reflect that the nursing care can be affected by the work force ratio that is the
workload and the nursing staff imbalance. I can highlight that the increase in the workforce can
effectively improve the care quality. Based on this factor I can highlight that the nursing care is
affected with different aspects as mentioned earlier and should be improved with the process of
the workforce increase and proper education and training providence to the nurses. The training
and the education should focus on the improvement of the nursing skills especially the
communication and the leadership skills. However, evidence based practice and the patient
centered approaches should be improved with the consideration of the management of the care
procedure and improvement of the communication skills.
Other than all these above aspects I can state that the health care policies should be
improved with the consideration of the improved care delivery. The policies should be focused
on the health care workforce improvement and providing education to the nurses for the
improvement of skills and the knowledge regarding health care delivery. On this context it can
be stated that the proper improvement of the care procedure would reflect in the statistical
aspects of the mortality rate and morbidity rate of people of the country as well. In this context I